| | Staff Scientists and Clinicians
| Julia W. Tossell,
M.D. |
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Dr.
Tossell is a staff clinician in the Child
Psychiatry Branch of the Intramural Research
Program. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College and the George Washington University
School of Medicine. She did her adult psychiatry residency at George Washington University, and her
child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Children's National Medical Center. She is board certified
in child, adolescent and adult psychiatry..
Dr. Tossell joined NIH in January 2002. Previously, she was in solo private practice in
Bethesda, MD, where her practice encompassed psychotherapy and psychopharmacology, with a
special interest in language-delayed children and adolescents. As Associate Clinical Professor of
Pediatrics and Psychiatry at the George Washington University School of Medicine, she was actively
involved in the teaching program of the Department of Psychiatry at Children's National Medical Center. |
| Research Interests |
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Dr. Tossell is primarily intested in the interplay between language disorders and psychiatric disorders.
Additionally, she is responsible for the clinical care of the child subjects enrolled in the Child Psychiatry
Branch's inpatient research protocols. These protocols focus on the treatment of childhood-onset
schizophrenia with atypical antipsychotic medications. She is also involved in the Branch's ongoing
outpatient studies of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and Klinefelter's Syndrome. |
| Representative Selected Recent Publications: |
- Bakalar JL, Greenstein DK, Clasen L, Tossell JW, Miller R, Evans AC, Mattai AA, Rapoport JL, and Nitin Gogtay. General absence of abnormal cortical asymmetry in childhood-onset schizophrenia: a longitudinal study. Schizophrenia Research. 115(1), 12-16. 2009.
- Tossell JW and Rapoport JL. My mind is breaking: psychosis. Chapter in DSM-IV TR Casebook and Treatment Guide for Child Mental Health. Jensen, PS and Galanter, CA, eds. New York: American Psychiatric Publishing, Inc., 2009.
- Giedd, JN, Lenroot, RK, Shaw, P, Lalonde, F, Celano, M, White, S, Tossell, J, Addington, A and Gogtay, N. Trajectories of anatomic brain development as a phenotype. Growth factors and psychiatric disorders. Novartis Found Symp. 289: 101-112; discussion 112-8, 193-5, 2008. PMID: 18497098
- Giedd JN, Clasen LS, Wallace GL, Lenroot RK, Lerch JP, Molloy EA, Blumenthal JD, Nelson JE, Tossell JW, Stayer C, Evans AC, Samango-Sprouse CA. XXY (Klinefelter syndrome): a pediatric quantitative brain magnetic resonance imaging case-control study. Pediatrics. 119:e232-240, 2007.
- Sporn AL, Vermani A, Greenstein DK, Bobb AJ, Spencer EP, Clasen LS, Tossell JW, Stayer CC, Gochman PA, Lenane MC, Rapoport JL, Gotay N. Clozapine treatment of childhood-onset schizophrenia: evaluation of effectiveness, adverse effects and long-term outcome. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 46: 1349-1356, 2007.
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